NJ governor’s race descends into scandal over Naval Academy cheating, records breach

Jack Citarelli, the Republican Governor’s candidate in New Jersey, said that the Democrats are trying to pay the attention of voters from the participation of Democratic candidate Mickey Sherrill in 1994 Fraud scandal at the American Maritime Academy By directing the finger to the Trump administration to violate the national archives, it canceled its entire military record.

While the Democrats populated against the Trump administration after violating the national archives data, the Republicans raised questions about a New Jersey Globe Report Sherrill revealed that she was graduating from the US Navy Academy category for refusing to report the study fellow participating in a huge cheating scandal.

Sherrill said in a statement on Thursday criticizing Seatarili and the Trump administration for “breaking the law and exposing private records to achieve political gains,” Sherrill said in a statement on Thursday.

But the Ciattarelli campaign told Fox News Digital that the documents that separate Sherrill’s involvement in the fraud scandal were not included in the national archive breach and that Sherrill was involved in the fraud scandal when the New Jersey Globe report confirmed.

New Jersey Governor of the Naval Academy on the fraud scandal

Republican Jacques Seatarili (right) is calling for MP Micky Sherrill (left) her military records while the Restor -Ruler of the State of New Jersey rises. (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)

The Ciattarelli campaign said that Nicholas de Gregorio, a friend who is not directly involved in the campaign, was submitted to the campaign. Sherrill’s military background On its own.

A spokesman for the architectural administration and national records said that the technician who responded to De Gregorio’s request about the military registry of a villain “should not have issued the entire record,” which included special information such as the social security number.

The Ciattarelli campaign refuses to destroy those documents that were unintentionally sent to De Gregorio and later shared with the campaign.

The national archives apologized for violating privacy and committed to holding its employees accountable for the error.

The most important ruler race was shook by allegations of leaks and dirty tricks amid improper military records

During the investigation of Sherrill’s suspect’s participation in the 1994 fraud scandal, the Ciattarelli campaign also presented its own FOIA, who confirmed its name was not in the graduation program from the American Marine Academy that year.

“I did not run some of my colleagues in the class, so I did not walk, but I graduated and was assigned as an officer in the US Navy, where I served for nearly ten years with the highest level of discrimination and honor.” I told Globe when I faced With the start program, where she defended not to issue any disciplinary records of her time at the Academy.

Republican Jacques Seatarelli responds to questions during the first ruler discussion in the general elections with the democratic opponent, Mickey Sherrill, on Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)

“Unlike your customer’s unimaginable claims, no one leaked anything to the campaign to try to distort [Sherrill]”If they do so, we will not wait for her to issue records of her involvement in the fraud scandal at the United States Maritime Academy, which led to preventing her from walking in her graduation,” said a lawyer representing the Ciattarelli campaign in the letter.

The letter sent to Sherrill’s lawyers said that any claim that Seatarili for the position of governor (CFG) was “part of a distortion plot [Sherrill] With illegal documents are completely wrong. In fact, it is adult and if [Sherrill] And its campaign continues to push this wrong narration and claimed that CFG and/or [campaign strategist Chris] Russell illegally behaved, and we will follow the defamation claims. “

However, the Democrats rushed to blame data breach on the president Donald Trump.

“The Trump administration’s privacy violation is a slap in the face of the members of the nation of our courageous nation. It is a shameful order,” former MP, Abyel Spanberger, a former Virginia governor’s candidate in Virginia, He said Thursday.

The National Democratic Committee (DNC) condemned the Trump administration when they claimed to be a “decision” to release the documents, although the national architect official confirms that he was the low -level Saint Louis branch employee responsible for “not following the appropriate administrative procedures.”

“the Trump administration decision The release of the files of the unrestricted military personnel to its opponent’s campaign, including the social security number, is another example of Donald Trump and the Republicans who illegally making the federal government for political purposes, “” DNC Martin president, while the breach is called a “stoked scandal” that shows a few Donald Trump Trump and Jack Seatarili for the US military. “

Representative Micky Sherrill from New Jersey, the ruler’s democratic candidate, responds to questions during a discussion on Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)

“He will support the criminal investigation into the unauthorized and illegal release of the records of Mickey Sherrill.”

California MP Robert Garcia, a member of the House of Representatives Control Committee, and Democrats in the House of Representatives from the Congress delegation in New Jersey, also called for an official investigation.

“The illegal installation of Mickey Sherrill is another state of blatant corruption, very common in this offer — Vice President DNC ​​and Malcom Kenyatta states He said on x.

Representative Jimmy Raskin accused DMD.

The fighting deputy agreed to the fighting deputy, Mark Kelly, De Areez, that the administration is “corrupt and uncharged.”

“The Trump administration launched illegal military records,” ruler. Gavin New No.D-carif. And, which is widely considered to harbor the aspirations of the presidency and appeared as one of Trump’s critics, was accused.

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Sean Higgins, the Sherrill Campaign Director on Thursday, accused the Trump administration of “targeting political opponents of an absolute ignorance of the law, this time in coordination with the Ciattarelli campaign”.

The White House did not respond to the request of Fox News Digital to comment on the accusations of democracy.